| endocarditis associated with cardiac catheterization due to a gram-positive coccus designated micrococcus mucilaginosus incertae sedis. | a gram-positive coccus, presently named micrococcus mucilaginosus incertae sedis, was isolated from 14 blood cultures from a patient with endocarditis. the first positive blood culture was drawn 5 days after the patient underwent cardiac catheterization. | 1978 | 670378 |
| [tracheostomy wound infection caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus]. | | 1992 | 1292607 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a child with leukemia. | | 1992 | 1457637 |
| bacteremia caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus: report of seven cases and review of the literature. | during a three-year period eight patients with blood cultures positive for stomatococcus mucilaginosus were identified at two university hospitals. one patient without any signs of infection had a central venous catheter that was colonized with this organism, two patients had transient bacteremia without definite relationship to underlying disease, whereas the remaining five patients suffered from clinically significant infections. of these last five patients, one had undergone prior head and ne ... | 1992 | 1521887 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus: an emerging pathogen in neutropenic patients. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus was isolated from eight neutropenic patients during nine febrile episodes over a 13-month period. five of these isolates were from definite infections, including one case of fatal meningitis. this slime-producing, catalase-variable, gram-positive coccus is a component of the normal oral flora of humans. its biochemical profile may result in misidentification; however, unlike most micrococci, it characteristically fails to grow on media containing 5% nacl. all but one ... | 1992 | 1562654 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicemia and meningitis in a premature infant. | | 1992 | 1565562 |
| infections due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus: report of two new cases and review. | | 1992 | 1623087 |
| aids-related stomatococcus mucilaginosus infection. | | 1991 | 1679167 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus infection. | | 1991 | 1681233 |
| infections due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus: 10 cases and review. | we describe 10 new cases of bacteremia due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus and review eight other cases that have been described in the literature. the most common clinical presentations were endocarditis, catheter-related infection, and septicemia. commonly associated risk factors were intravenous drug abuse, cardiac valve disease, the presence of foreign bodies (especially indwelling vascular catheters), and immunocompromised states. s. mucilaginosus bacteremia is readily treatable with antibio ... | 1991 | 1775836 |
| susceptibility to aminoglycosides of 63 strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated from sputum. | the mic of 63 stomatococcus mucilaginosus for 7 aminoglycosides was determined. most of the strains were resistant to these antibiotics except to streptomycin. a natural resistance due to impermeability may be involved. one single strain was resistant to all these aminoglycosides where the concentration level of streptomycin was greater than 1000 mg/l. a chromosomal mutation is probably involved. | 1991 | 1789902 |
| [staphyogram, a new rapid identification kit for the aerobic, gram-positive, catalase-positive cocci--application of fluorometric microplate hybridization for the pre-identification of 386 isolates used]. | a new simplified test kit, staphyogram plate, was developed for 4-hr identification of aerobic, gram-positive and catalase-positive cocci. the plate has 18 wells, in which different dehydrated substrates and nutrients are fixed. an 18-hr agar-culture suspension of a test strain with a turbidity of mcfarland no. 4 was distributed into all wells in 50-microliters quantities. after 4-hr incubation at 37c, the profile number was obtained by summarizing positive reactions. the ability of the plate to ... | 1991 | 1890731 |
| source of infection in stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicaemia. | | 1990 | 1968149 |
| micrococcus and stomatococcus spp. from human infections. | infections with micrococcus spp. in six patients and stomatococcus mucilaginosus in one patient are described. two of the micrococcus infections occurred in leukaemic patients with indwelling lines, six episodes occurred in three patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and one occurred in a patient with a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt. stomatococcus was isolated from fluid draining from a sub-dural haematoma. colony morphology, oxidase reaction and resistance to nitrofuration ... | 1990 | 1974908 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus catheter-related infection in an adolescent with osteosarcoma. | ours is apparently the first reported pediatric case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus bacteremia. it is the second reported case of s mucilaginosus catheter-associated infection, but the first case successfully treated without removing the central venous catheter. this unusual organism should be added to the list of opportunistic pathogens that can be isolated from immunocompromised pediatric patients. | 1991 | 2000540 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus infections in children with leukemia. | | 1990 | 2235196 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus bacteremias. typical case presentations, simplified diagnostic criteria, and a literature review. | even though stomatococcus mucilaginosus is considered indigenous oral-pharyngeal flora, cited literature and case reports indicate that it can be the cause of infectious conditions. tested strains were isolated from blood, the oral region, and wound sources. the organism was routinely misidentified or not identified by conventional or commercial systems (vitek, staph-trac). four antimicrobial diagnostic disks for example, bacitracin (0.04 units; taxo a), furazolidone (100 micrograms), novobiocin ... | 1990 | 2279383 |
| fatal stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicaemia in a neutropenic patient. | | 1989 | 2513192 |
| bacteraemia caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in a granulocytopenic patient with acute lymphocytic leukaemia. | a patient undergoing chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia developed bacteraemia caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus while he was granulocytopenic. the organism may have been selected from the upper respiratory tract flora during prophylaxis with oral ciprofloxacin and then translocated to the blood stream via the mucosa. the strain produced an api-staph profile indistinguishable from that of micrococcus kristinae. since a catalase-negative reaction is highly suggestive of s. mucilagi ... | 1989 | 2601792 |
| structure of dental plaque and the plaque-enamel interface in human experimental caries. | this study describes the ultrastructure of dental plaque and the plaque-enamel interface after 2 and 3 weeks' exposure to a cariogenic challenge. five dental students carried a total of 25 specimens of smooth surface enamel in intraoral acrylic appliances. during the initial 3 days the volunteers refrained from oral hygiene and performed nine daily mouthrinses with 10% (w/v) solutions of sucrose. after the 3rd day the volunteers cleaned their natural teeth, whereas the experimental sites were le ... | 1989 | 2736576 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus catheter-associated infection with septicemia. | a case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus catheter-associated infection is reported. the organism was isolated from the catheter and from two blood cultures. | 1989 | 2745688 |
| [antibiotic sensitivity of 32 strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus in oral medicine patients in community practice]. | susceptibility to eleven antibiotics of 32 strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated from gingival or dental samples in patients who are nor hospitalized nor receiving antibiotics since six months was tested by diffusion and mic. 12.5% of strains were resistant to macrolides and lincosamides. this result is significantly different from the result obtained with strains isolated from patients hospitalized for chronic pulmonary problems (36%). this resistance to antibiotics could be due to se ... | 1989 | 2780095 |
| endocarditis caused by relatively penicillin-resistant stomatococcus mucilaginosus. | we report a case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus endocarditis in which the isolate was relatively resistant to penicillins and cephalothin. the patient was treated successfully with vancomycin and valve replacement. | 1989 | 2913031 |
| [significance of the isolation of stomatococcus mucilaginosus]. | | 1988 | 2965365 |
| [sensitivity to antibiotics of 64 strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated in human clinical cases. demonstration of erythromycin resistance]. | susceptibility to fifteen antibiotics of 64 stains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated from bronchial secretions was tested by susceptibility antibiotics diffusion and mic method. sixteen phenotypic profiles were determined by mic. some of these profiles and the spontaneous loss of resistance to erythromycin indicate plasmidic origin of this resistance. | 1988 | 3043335 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus as an agent of capd peritonitis. | we report a case of bacterial capd peritonitis in a 57 year old immunosuppressed woman with renal insufficiency caused by a rare species of the micrococcaceae, stomatococcus mucilaginosus. this uncommon case shows that the presence of gram-positive cocci in pairs, tetrads and clusters forming whitish-gummy colonies should remind us of the possibility of stomatococcus mucilaginosus. | 1988 | 3223144 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus prosthetic valve endocarditis. | | 1988 | 3361942 |
| microbiology of the early colonization of human enamel and root surfaces in vivo. | this study describes the predominant early microflora on human teeth on the basis of microbiologic identification of 1742 fresh isolates. the isolates were obtained from four dental students who carried test pieces of enamel and root surface in the oral cavity for 4, 8, 12, and 24 h. during the experimental periods oral hygiene was discontinued. under equal conditions root surfaces were more heavily colonized than were enamel surfaces. however, the composition of the microbiota was the same. wit ... | 1987 | 3477852 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus endocarditis in an intravenous drug abuser. | | 1987 | 3559282 |
| isolation of stomatococcus mucilaginosus from drug user with endocarditis. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus was isolated from the blood of a patient with endocarditis and a past history of drug abuse and aortic valve replacement. at autopsy, gram stain of the aortic valve revealed gram-positive cocci. our isolate was atypical for s. mucilaginosus in that colonies were nonmucoid and nonadherent to agar surfaces. cellular capsules were demonstrated by light and electron microscopy. phenotypic characteristics identified by conventional methods as well as profile numbers obtain ... | 1987 | 3624435 |
| porphyrin test as an alternative to benzidine test for detecting cytochromes in catalase-negative gram-positive cocci. | a total of 66 strains of gram-positive cocci, including 21 catalase-negative members of the family streptococcaceae and strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus, were investigated for the ability to produce porphobilinogen and porphyrin from delta-aminolevulinic acid as an alternative to the benzidine test for detecting the presence of cytochromes. production of porphobilinogen correlated 100% with membership in the family micrococcaceae. | 1987 | 3667921 |
| [stomatococcus mucilaginosus: cultural and biochemical properties of 100 strains isolated from the orl area]. | a study of the growth characteristics and 80 biochemical tests using api system micromethods (api-50ch, api-20e, api-zym) was carried out on 100 strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated from the human oral cavity. seventy-seven other enzymatic tests from the api system (ap-arylamidases, osidases and esterases) were also performed on 10 of these strains. the results of these tests were compared to those of 24 type strains of micrococcaceae and aerococcus viridans. a simple identification s ... | 1985 | 3890697 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus endocarditis. | a case of non-nosocomial, spontaneously occurring endocarditis caused by growth of stomatococcus mucilaginosus on a prolapsed mitral valve is reported. despite the organism's high susceptibility in vitro the patient responded slowly to antibiotic treatment. colony adherence to agar surface and absent or weak catalase reaction differentiated this gram-positive coccus from coagulase-negative staphylococci and micrococci. | 1985 | 4043062 |
| reisolation of micrococcus mucilaginosus migula 1900. | | 1970 | 5268186 |
| a phylogenetic analysis of staphylococci, peptococcus saccharolyticus and micrococcus mucilaginosus. | the intra- and intergeneric relationships of the genus staphylococcus, and the phylogenetic position of peptococcus saccharolyticus and micrococcus (staphylococcus salivarius), were investigated by comparative oligonucleotide cataloguing of 16s rrna. all the staphylococci investigated form a phylogenetically coherent group at the genus level that, in addition, contains the anaerobic species peptococcus saccharolyticus. the genus staphylococcus belongs to the broad bacillus-lactobacillus-streptoc ... | 1981 | 6172548 |
| study of stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated in a hospital ward using phenotypic characterization. | thirty-one isolates of stomatococcus mucilaginosus were cultured from the blood (n = 6), throat (n = 23) and sputum (n = 2) of 18 hospitalized patients, 13 of whom were neutropaneic and five of whom were non-neutropaneic. antibiotic susceptibility testing, performed by means of a broth microdilution method, showed that the minimal inhibitory concentrations (mics) of ciprofloxacin were > or = 4 mg/l for the isolates collected from neutropaenic patients. all these patients received ciprofloxacin a ... | 1995 | 7614959 |
| imaging of choroid plexus infection by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in neutropenic patients. | we report two neutropenic patients with stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis and choroid plexus involvement on neuroimaging studies. ct and mr showed abnormal enlargement of the choroid plexus in one lateral ventricle and intense enhancement. in one patient there was edema in the periventricular white matter adjacent to the involved choroid plexus; in both patients there was enhancement of the ependyma. | 1995 | 7677035 |
| antimicrobial susceptibilities of stomatococcus mucilaginosus and of micrococcus spp. | the in vitro susceptibilities of 63 isolates of stomatococcus mucilaginosus and of 188 isolates of micrococcus spp. to 18 antimicrobial agents were determined by the agar dilution method. many beta-lactams, imipenem, rifampin, and the glycopeptides were shown to be active in vitro against stomatococcus and micrococcus isolates, whereas the activities of antibiotics such as some aminoglycosides, erythromycin, and fosfomycin against an important number of these microorganisms are limited. | 1995 | 7695321 |
| four-year prospective study of staph-ident system and conventional method for reference identification of staphylococcus, stomatococcus, and micrococcus spp.. | a 4-year prospective study compared the accuracy of the staph-ident system (biomérieux vitek, inc., hazelwood, mo.) with that of the reference procedure of the centers for disease control and prevention for the identification of staphylococcus species, stomatococcus mucilaginosus, and micrococcus species. the study compared the results from 1,106 cultures (500 eye cultures, 217 strains submitted for reference identification, and 389 known stock strains) representing 21 species of the family micr ... | 1995 | 7699074 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus produces a mannose-containing lipoglycan rather than lipoteichoic acid. | five strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus were investigated to determine whether the organism produces a lipoteichoic acid or a lipoglycan. crude phenol extracts were purified by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and shown to contain lipoglycan. the major carbohydrate component present was mannose, indicating that the macroamphiphile is a lipomannan. the fatty acid composition of the lipoglycan was similar to that of stomatococcal whole cells. these data provide additional chemotaxonomic ... | 1995 | 7710324 |
| association of stomatococcus mucilaginosus with cholangitis. | the first case of cholangitis in which stomatococcus mucilaginosus was cultured from bile is reported. a 64-year-old male became icteric and was shown to have gallstones in the gallbladder and a common bile duct stone which was removed endoscopically. as the patient remained icteric for a month thereafter the gallbladder with stones was removed. no common bile duct stone was shown by cholangiography perioperatively. the liver biopsy revealed cholangitis and stomatococcus mucilaginosus was grown ... | 1994 | 7805692 |
| [stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in immunocompromised child]. | opportunistic infections are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality in patients with malignancy developing granulocytopenia as a result of therapy. a case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis is reported. | 1994 | 7842124 |
| vertebral osteomyelitis with stomatococcus mucilaginosus. | | 1994 | 7843187 |
| [normal flora of the human conjunctiva: examination of 135 persons of various ages]. | conjunctival flora is a prime suspect in searching for the cause of post-traumatic or post-operative ocular infections. better information on its individual composition is therefore desirable. | 1994 | 7869685 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus lower respiratory tract infection in a patient with aids. | we describe a case of recurrent stomatococcus mucilaginosus lower respiratory tract infection in a patient with aids. apart from s. mucilaginosus no other pathogens were found to account for infection. there was a rapid response to rifampicin, the organism being resistant to penicillin, co-trimoxazole and ciprofloxacin. infections caused by this organism are increasingly described, but there are few reports of lower respiratory tract infection. | 1994 | 7884227 |
| [pneumonia complicated by bacteremia with stomatococcus mucilaginosus]. | a rare strain of stomatococcus mucilaginosus (formerly micrococcus) was isolated from blood of a patient after pneumonia, which was causing an enlargement of lymph nodes and groin fistula. chemical composition of cell wall of this microorganism (analysis of amino acids and diagnostically important sugars), elementary composition of lipids (fatty acids, phospholipids and glycolipids) and molar percentage of guanine and cytosine (%gc), were determined. results completely agreeable with results pub ... | 1994 | 7967938 |
| postoperative endophthalmitis caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus. | | 1994 | 8011854 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicemia in two bone marrow transplanted patients. | a 44-year-old man with chronic myeloid leukemia and a 10-year-old boy with adrenoleukodystrophy, both admitted for bone marrow transplantation in december 1992, developed clinical signs of septicemia within 2 weeks after transplantation. three strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus were isolated from blood cultures. these were among the first cases of s. mucilaginosus infection diagnosed at our laboratory and the first reported from scandinavia. s. mucilaginosus is part of the endogenous oral fl ... | 1994 | 8036477 |
| cross-reactivity between stomatococcus mucilaginosus and latex agglutination for cryptococcal antigen. | | 1993 | 8105345 |
| complications of bacteremia due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in neutropenic children. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus, a normal inhabitant of the human oral cavity and upper respiratory tract, can cause fatal sepsis and meningitis in neutropenic patients. we identified eight cases of bacteremia due to s. mucilaginosus in children with cancer, of whom five developed complications despite receiving appropriate antibiotics. at the time cultures were positive, seven patients had profound neutropenia (< 100 neutrophils and band forms/mm3) and four had mucositis; five had central venous ca ... | 1993 | 8268348 |
| evaluation of biolog for identification of members of the family micrococcaceae. | the biolog identification system (biolog, inc., hayward, calif.) was challenged at two separate laboratories with 113 coded isolates, including 33 type strains of staphylococci, 5 strains of micrococcus spp., and 1 strain of stomatococcus mucilaginosus. test parameters between the sites were controlled as much as possible. discrepancies were arbitrated by using conventional biochemicals. overall accuracies (correct to the species level) upon initial testing were 47.7 and 59.3%, respectively, at ... | 1993 | 8308109 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus fatal sepsis in a child with leukemia. | | 1993 | 8414811 |
| numerical approach to reference identification of staphylococcus, stomatococcus, and micrococcus spp. | a numerical-code system for the reference identification of staphylococcus species, stomatococcus mucilaginosus, and micrococcus species was established by using a selected panel of conventional biochemicals. results from 824 cultures (289 eye isolate cultures, 147 reference strains, and 388 known control strains) were used to generate a list of 354 identification code numbers. each six-digit code number was based on results from 18 conventional biochemical reactions. seven milliliters of purple ... | 1993 | 8458941 |
| [isolation of stomatococcus mucilaginosus from blood cultures]. | | 1993 | 8499521 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a patient with multiple myeloma following autologous stem cell transplantation. | bacterial meningitis is an unusual complication of bone marrow transplantation. we report a case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a patient with multiple myeloma shortly after an autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant. the infection resolved with a combination of intravenous penicillin g and chloramphenicol, and intrathecal vancomycin. | 1997 | 9085747 |
| successful treatment of stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis with intravenous vancomycin and intravenous ceftriaxone. | | 1997 | 9114169 |
| [stomatococcus mucilaginosus infection. a rare cause of cutaneous histiocytic infiltrate]. | we report the case of a systemic infection due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus with cutaneous localisations occurring in a neutropenic child. the histological features of this cutaneous involvement are very unusual and the diagnosis can be suggested before bacteriological results. | 1998 | 9551159 |
| [bacteremia caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in a bone marrow transplantation patient]. | | 1998 | 9611882 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicemia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. | a 16-year-old patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia which had relapsed for the third time developed clinical signs and symptoms of septicemia during a period of neutropenia. the patient had signs of oral mucositis, and stomatococcus mucilaginosus was isolated from blood cultures. the patient responded well to antibiotic therapy. the biochemical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of 68 other pharyngeal isolates of stomatococcus mucilaginosus from immunocompromised pati ... | 1998 | 9764554 |
| severe infection caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in a neutropenic patient: case report and review of the literature. | a 24-year-old female, in neutropenic phase after chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia (on day 15) was admitted in intensive care unit for infectious pneumonia. two strains of stomatococcus mucilaginosus were isolated from peripheral blood cultures. no microorganisms were yielded from bronchoalveolar lavage. patient's condition improved with prompt instigation of effective antibiotic therapy. this was the first case of septicemia and pneumonia, due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus, in our un ... | 1998 | 9766921 |
| central nervous system infections due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in immunocompromised hosts. | we present a case of central nervous system (cns) infection due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus involving a patient with leukemia and summarize 12 additional published reports of cns infection due to this organism in immunocompromised hosts. the infection was diagnosed most commonly in the setting of hematologic malignancy accompanied by chemotherapy-induced neutropenia. s. mucilaginosus was recovered from blood prior to discovery of the cns infection in 62% of cases. signs or symptoms of cns inf ... | 1998 | 9827277 |
| in vitro activity of ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and levofloxacin against micrococcus species and stomatococcus mucilaginosus isolated from healthy subjects and neutropenic patients. | | 1998 | 10052561 |
| [bacteremia caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in a neutropenic patient]. | | 1999 | 10069114 |
| [bacteremia by stomatococcus mucilaginosus in leukemic patients]. | | 1999 | 10396096 |
| changing epidemiology of infections in patients with neutropenia and cancer: emphasis on gram-positive and resistant bacteria. | over the past 3 decades, considerable changes have occurred in the types of bacteria causing infection in febrile patients with neutropenia and cancer. twenty years ago, gram-negative bacteria caused approximately 70% of bloodstream infections. as a probable consequence of long-dwelling intravascular devices, fluoroquinolone prophylaxis, and high-dose chemotherapy-induced mucositis, there has been a shift toward gram-positive coccal bacteremia. in most centers today, approximately 70% of bactere ... | 1999 | 10530434 |
| characterization of a rothia-like organism from a mouse: description of rothia nasimurium sp. nov. and reclassification of stomatococcus mucilaginosus as rothia mucilaginosa comb. nov. | an unknown, gram-positive, ovoid-shaped bacterium isolated from the nose of a mouse was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic analysis. comparative 16s rrna gene sequencing demonstrated that the unknown organism was a member of the family micrococcaceae and possessed a specific phylogenetic association with rothia dentocariosa and stomatococcus mucilaginosus. phenotypically, the bacterium closely resembled r. dentocariosa and s. mucilaginosus but could be distinguished from these species by bioche ... | 2000 | 10843069 |
| investigation of infectious organisms causing pericoronitis of the mandibular third molar. | the purpose of the study was to identify the most frequently encountered pyogenic organisms involved in pericoronitis to permit more targeted antibiotic therapy. | 2000 | 10847281 |
| [stomatococcus mucilaginosus infections. bibliographic review]. | | 2000 | 10932397 |
| treatment of stomatococcus mucilaginosus bloodstream infection in two acute leukemia patients, first reported at our cancer center. | | 2000 | 11154041 |
| assessment of acid production by various human oral micro-organisms when palatinose or leucrose is utilized. | one promising way of reducing caries is by using sucrose substitutes in food, e.g., palatinose or leucrose. previous experiments addressing cariogenic potential of sucrose substitutes have focused mainly on streptococcus mutans. however, given the many other micro-organisms in the oral cavity, this study compared the acid production of 100 bacterial strains representing 44 different species, by batch fermentation in a test tube containing, as a sole carbohydrate source, glucose, sucrose, palatin ... | 2001 | 11269732 |
| bactericidal activity in cerebrospinal fluid by treating meningitis caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus with rifampicin, cefotaxime and vancomycin in a neutropenic child. | | 2001 | 11284946 |
| [microflora of the posterior pharyngeal wall, larynx and postoperative wounds in patients after laryngectomy]. | the study group were persons with risk factors of colonization by pathogenic strains and included smokers, patients suffering from paradontosis, and patients with visibly neglected oral cavity and teeth. we isolated and classified to the species or genera 488 microorganisms. of posterior pharyngeal wall flora, 61% of were gram-negative bacteria, represented predominantly by haemophilus and anaerobic rods and aerobic cocci belonging to the neisseria and moraxella (branhamella) genera. in the grou ... | 2001 | 11757406 |
| pneumonia due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in an aids patient: case report and literature review. | | 1999 | 11856231 |
| in vitro evaluation of azd2563, a new oxazolidinone, tested against unusual gram-positive species. | the recently introduced oxazolidinone, linezolid, has a spectrum and potency directed against gram-positive organisms, including antimicrobial-resistant isolates. the newest agent in this class, azd2563 was tested against uncommonly isolated gram-positive species to establish the breadth of its spectrum. by reference broth microdilution methods, 120 strains were tested (48 corynebacterium spp., 10 species; 27 listeria spp., 2 species; 11 micrococcus spp., 2 species; 23 bacillus spp., 3 species; ... | 2002 | 11858907 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus septicemia in leukemic patients. | objective: to report an unexpectedly high number of cases of septicemia with stomatococcus mucilaginosus, and try to identify predisposing factors. methods: all blood cultures obtained during 1991--93 from patients treated at the hematologic ward were bacteriologically identified. the medical records of patients with s. mucilaginosus-positive blood cultures were retrospectively reviewed and evaluated. the antibiotic susceptibility pattern and restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) of s. ... | 1996 | 11866841 |
| diversity of bacterial populations on the tongue dorsa of patients with halitosis and healthy patients. | the primary purpose of the present study was to compare the microbial profiles of the tongue dorsa of healthy subjects and subjects with halitosis by using culture-independent molecular methods. our overall goal was to determine the bacterial diversity on the surface of the tongue dorsum as part of our ongoing efforts to identify all cultivable and not-yet-cultivated species of the oral cavity. tongue dorsum scrapings were analyzed from healthy subjects with no complaints of halitosis and subjec ... | 2003 | 12574246 |
| cerebral mycotic aneurysm complicating stomatococcus mucilaginosus infective endocarditis. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus is a gram-positive coccus present in the normal flora of the mouth and upper respiratory tract of humans. although traditionally believed to be an organism of low virulence, s. mucilaginosus has recently been recognized as an emerging opportunistic pathogen, especially in patients with chronic immunosuppressive diseases. this report describes the case of a patient with known mitral valve prolapse, who presented with a mycotic cerebral aneurysm revealing a non-nosocomi ... | 2002 | 12578165 |
| postoperative spondylodiskitis due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in an immunocompetent patient. | a case is reported of postoperative spondylodiskitis due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in an immunocompetent woman. the route of infection remains unknown. intravenous treatment with cefotaxime and fosfomycin was given, followed by oral administration of rifampin and pristinamycin until resolution of infection. this report shows that this bacterium can cause severe infections in immunocompetent patients. | 2003 | 12693571 |
| bacteremia due to stomatococcus mucilaginosus in neutropenic patients in the setting of a cancer institute. | this study reviews the clinical manifestations, causes and frequency of stomatococcus mucilaginosus bacteremia in neutropenic cancer patients. we analyzed retrospectively all clinical and microbiological records of patients with s. mucilaginosus bacteremia. the incidence was compared with that of other pathogens causing bacteremia during neutropenia for the same period. s. mucilaginosus represented 5.9% of bacteremias in our neutropenic patients. seven patients with hematologic malignancies and ... | 2003 | 14616756 |
| rothia aeria sp. nov., rhodococcus baikonurensis sp. nov. and arthrobacter russicus sp. nov., isolated from air in the russian space laboratory mir. | four gram-positive bacteria, strains a1-17b(t), a1-22(t), a1-3(t) and a1-8, isolated from the air in the russian space laboratory mir, were subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. phylogenetic analysis of the bacteria based on their 16s rdna sequence showed that they belong to the genera rothia (a1-17b(t)), rhodococcus (a1-22(t)) and arthrobacter (a1-3(t) and a1-8). morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic and genomic characteristics supported the assignments of these strains to these gen ... | 2004 | 15143031 |
| identification of some charcoal-black-pigmented cdc fermentative coryneform group 4 isolates as rothia dentocariosa and some as corynebacterium aurimucosum: proposal of rothia dentocariosa emend. georg and brown 1967, corynebacterium aurimucosum emend. yassin et al. 2002, and corynebacterium nigricans shukla et al. 2003 pro synon. corynebacterium aurimucosum. | sixty-three clinical isolates of charcoal-black-pigmented, gram-positive coryneform rods were received for identification by the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) and were provisionally designated cdc fermentative coryneform group 4 (fcg4). forty-five of these were characterized by morphological, physiologic, antimicrobial susceptibility, cellular fatty acids, 16s rrna gene sequencing, and dna-dna hybridization analyses. nitrate reduction, cellular fatty acid analysis, 16s rrna ge ... | 2004 | 15365010 |
| structural and serological characterization of the major glycolipid from rothia mucilaginosa. | structural studies on the major glycolipid isolated from rothia mucilaginosa were carried out utilising specific chemical degradation, nmr spectroscopy and matrix-assisted laser-desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (maldi tof-ms). the glycolipid was found to be a dimannosylacylmonoglyceride in which the carbohydrate part was the glycerol-linked dimannoside alpha-d-manp-(1-->3)-alpha-d-manp-(1-->3)-sn-gro (man a-man b-gro), of which man b was esterified at o-6 by a fatty acid re ... | 2004 | 15535967 |
| evaluation of bacterial nitrate reduction in the human oral cavity. | it is hypothesized that the enterosalivary nitrate circulation encourages nitrate reducing bacteria to reside within the oral cavity. nitrite production may then limit the growth of acidogenic bacteria as a result of the production of antimicrobial oxides of nitrogen, including nitric oxide. this study was carried out with 10 subjects to characterize oral nitrate reduction and identify the bacteria responsible. nitrate reduction varied between individuals (mean 85.4 +/- 15.9 nmol nitrite min(-1) ... | 2005 | 15693824 |
| in vitro activity of daptomycin against clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria. | we determined the activity of daptomycin, a recently fda-approved antimicrobial agent, against clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria, including viridans group streptococci (16 streptococcus mitis species group, 12 s. mutans species group, 9 s. anginosus species group, 8 s. sanguinis species group, 5 s. salivarius species group) from patients with infective endocarditis, 32 methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, 32 high-level penicillin-resistant streptococcus pneumoniae, 38 vancomyci ... | 2005 | 16133715 |
| [isolation and comparative analysis of glycolipid fractions in bifidobacteria]. | a comparative tlc analysis of lipid extracts from bifidobacterium longum b 379 m, b. bifidum 791, and b. adolescentis 94 bim has been performed. it is demonstrated that carbohydrate-containing lipid components were present in the bacteria, which differed in their chromatographic mobility (rf) from similar compounds isolated from actinomycetes stomatococcus mucilaginosus pcm 2415t, nocardiopsis dassonvillei pcm 2492, propionibacterium propionicum pcm 2431, saccharopolyspora hirsuta pcm 2279 (= at ... | 2005 | 16400987 |
| late prosthetic joint infection due to rothia mucilaginosa. | we report a chronic hip arthroplasty infection with rothia mucilaginosa, a gram-positive germ belonging to the normal flora of the human oral cavity. successful treatment was achieved by a two-stage hip arthroplasty revision and intravenous administration of vancomycin. this case report illustrates the potential virulence of r. mucilaginosa in patients with a joint prosthesis. we propose to routinely perform specific staining and prolonged culturing techniques for unusual germs such as rothia mu ... | 2007 | 17515244 |
| bacteremia caused by rothia mucilaginosa in a patient with shwachman-diamond syndrome. | | 2007 | 17565469 |
| bacterial meningitis from rothia mucilaginosa in patients with malignancy or undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. | opportunistic infections contribute to morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and treatment for malignancies. rothia mucilaginosa, a gram-positive bacterium, is responsible for rare, but often fatal meningitis in severely immunocompromised patients. we describe two cases of meningitis from discrete strains of r. mucilaginosa on our pediatric bone marrow transplant unit, summarize the published cases of r. mucilaginosa meningitis in oncology and ste ... | 2008 | 17588235 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. | | 1995 | 17590615 |
| eight cases of lower respiratory tract infection caused by stomatococcus mucilaginosus. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus was isolated from 8 patients suffering from lower respiratory tract infections over a 4-y period (1999-2003). the infections ranged from mild cases of pneumonia to a life-threatening case of recurrent lung abscesses in a neutropenic patient. the various strains were cultured from specimens obtained by bronchoscopy, blood, and sputum specimens. all strains were fully susceptible to rifampicin, vancomycin and gentamicin. they showed variable susceptibility to penicillin ... | 2007 | 17886126 |
| [rothia mucilaginosa]. | | 2008 | 18273521 |
| stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a healthy 2-month-old child. | stomatococcus mucilaginosus is a gram-positive, catalase-variable organism considered part of the normal human oral and upper respiratory tract flora. although traditionally believed to be an organism of low virulence, stomatococcus mucilaginosus has been reported to be an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. we describe what we believe is the first reported case of stomatococcus mucilaginosus meningitis in a healthy child. the isolate was multidrug-resistant, susceptible only t ... | 2008 | 18287304 |
| [paucisymptomatic pneumonia due to rothia mucilaginosa: case report and literature review]. | rothia mucilaginosa is a gram-positive, coagulase-negative, encapsulated, non-spore-forming coccus considered part of the commensal flora of the oral cavity and the upper respiratory tract in humans. its involvement has been reported in an increasing spectrum of infections, above all among immunocompromised patients. to date, only 11 cases of pneumonia due to rothia mucilaginosa have been described in the literature. the authors report a case of pneumonia due to rothia mucilaginosa in a 72-year- ... | 2009 | 19602923 |
| infectious granulomatous dermatitis associated with rothia mucilaginosa bacteremia: a case report. | infections with rare pathogens are being recognized with increasing frequency in severely immunocompromised patients. as a result of these patients' underlying compromised defenses and susceptibility to atypical organisms, tissue biopsies from patients within this population may demonstrate nonclassical histopathological findings. here, we describe an unusual granulomatous reaction to gram-positive cocci in the skin of a 52-year-old man undergoing salvage chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia. ... | 2010 | 19940746 |
| a case of peritonitis due to rothia mucilaginosa. | | 2010 | 20424204 |
| septic arthritis due to rothia mucilaginosa. | | 2010 | 21153041 |
| phylogenetic perspectives of nitrogen-fixing actinobacteria. | it was assumed for a long time that the ability to catalyze atmospheric nitrogen (diazotrophy) has a narrow distribution among actinobacteria being limited to the genus frankia. recently, the number of nitrogen fixation (nifh) genes identified in other non-frankia actinobacteria has dramatically increased and has opened investigation on the origin and emergence of diazotrophy among actinobacteria. during the last decade, mycobacterium flavum, corynebacterium autotrophicum and a fluorescent arthr ... | 2011 | 21779790 |
| identification of rothia bacteria as gluten-degrading natural colonizers of the upper gastro-intestinal tract. | gluten proteins, prominent constituents of barley, wheat and rye, cause celiac disease in genetically predisposed subjects. gluten is notoriously difficult to digest by mammalian proteolytic enzymes and the protease-resistant domains contain multiple immunogenic epitopes. the aim of this study was to identify novel sources of gluten-digesting microbial enzymes from the upper gastro-intestinal tract with the potential to neutralize gluten epitopes. | 2011 | 21957450 |
| exploring salivary microbiota in aids patients with different periodontal statuses using 454 gs-flx titanium pyrosequencing. | patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) are at high risk of opportunistic infections. oral manifestations have been associated with the level of immunosuppression, these include periodontal diseases, and understanding the microbial populations in the oral cavity is crucial for clinical management. the aim of this study was to examine the salivary bacterial diversity in patients newly admitted to the aids ward of the public health clinical center (china). saliva samples were colle ... | 2015 | 26191508 |
| effect of rothia mucilaginosa enzymes on gliadin (gluten) structure, deamidation, and immunogenic epitopes relevant to celiac disease. | rothia mucilaginosa, a natural microbial inhabitant of the oral cavity, cleaves gluten (gliadin) proteins at regions that are resistant to degradation by mammalian enzymes. the aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the r. mucilaginosa cell-associated enzymes abolish gliadin immunogenic properties. degradation of total gliadins and highly immunogenic gliadin 33-mer or 26-mer peptides was monitored by sds-page and rp-hplc, and fragments were sequenced by liquid chromatography and ele ... | 2014 | 25147233 |